arch - low disk space on root partition
Hi everyone My experience with EndeavourOS has been really positive so far. However, this morning, after a big upgrade, I received the notification that I was running low on disk space on my root partition (only 1.9GB out of 37GB remaining!). After a bit of looking around the web, I settled on clearing my pacman cache: sudo pacman -Sc And I'm back to having 19GB free disk space. :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:25:37 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
However, this morning, after a big upgrade, I received the notification that I was running low on disk space on my root partition (only 1.9GB out of 37GB remaining!).
This is why I allocate as much as 50-60GB to the OS partition nowadays.
After a bit of looking around the web, I settled on clearing my pacman cache: sudo pacman -Sc
And I'm back to having 19GB free disk space. :-)
Yup, been there, done that with Debian, more than once.
However, this morning, after a big upgrade, I received the notification that I was running low on disk space on my root partition (only 1.9GB out of 37GB remaining!).
This is why I allocate as much as 50-60GB to the OS partition nowadays.
After a bit of looking around the web, I settled on clearing my pacman cache: sudo pacman -Sc
And I'm back to having 19GB free disk space. :-)
Yup, been there, done that with Debian, more than once.
Previously, I had that problem with my Linux Mint installation. It kept *all* the linux kernels and headers that came through over the course of a couple of years (Arch only keeps the most recent one installed, I believe). Bit painful going through all of them and deleting them, but it freed up a lot of disk space. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
At one point I had a problem with /var filling up the partition. 50G for / seems huge to me. Jake.
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